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A Cal State Northridge student died as a result of hazing during a fraternity pledge, school officials announced Friday after a two-month long internal investigation. Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. from Northridge Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (Published Friday, Sept. 5, 2014)

Cal State Northridge said Friday an internal investigation determined hazing was involved in the death of a college freshman who passed out in the Angeles National Forest during a hike with other fraternity pledges in July.

CSUN President Dianne Harrison said the fraternity involved has surrendered its CSUN chapter and individual student culpability will be determined at the conclusion of the criminal investigation into the death of Armando Villa.

Villa, 19, a pledge to the Zeta Mu Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, lost consciousness July 1 in the Angeles National Forest after the group he was with ran out of water. Other pledges were able to track down a ranger for help, but Villa was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

"The report’s findings are deeply disturbing, and I will not turn a blind eye to any reports of hazing," Harrison said in a statement. "Hazing is stupid, senseless, dangerous and against the law in California. It is a vestige of a toxic way of thinking in which it was somehow okay to degrade, humiliate and potentially harm others. It has no place on this or any university campus, in any student club or organization, and it will not be tolerated."

“Why did this go south as bad as it did to take my cousin’s life for a dumb reason like hazing?” said Joshua Castaneda.

“There’s just a lot of things that don’t add up and what they’re telling us, it’s not enough. They know a lot more than they’re telling us,” says Jose Serrato, Villa’s stepfather, told NBC4 last month.